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By Sam Kim

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 0.55 percent higher late
Wednesday morning as investors picked up financial and construction shares,

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's baseball squad has been recognized as
the world's second-strongest team in the latest global rankings released
Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Park Tae-hwan, South Korea's 19-year-old
swimming gold medalist, said Tuesday he aims to overcome his weakness in long

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- The chief executive officer of POSCO Co., the world's
fourth-largest steel maker, will likely resign from the post, according to news

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- A teenage film by South Korean director Jung Ji-yeon
has been invited to join the Generation lineup at this year's Berlin

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States will sign an
agreement later this week on Seoul's financial contribution to the stationing of

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- A new presidential committee will begin its mission
next week to improve the image of the country and its products in the

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- The government will more than double its research and
development (R&D) investment in the nation's service sector over the next four